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Prince stands among ruins
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 13 - 07 - 2008

Monty Panesar exposed South Africa's historic fallibility against spin bowling on Saturday with four for 74 on the third day of the first Test at Lord's.
Panesar helped dismiss South Africa for 247 in its first innings in reply to England's 593 for eight declared. The visitors were 13 for no wicket at the close in their second innings after being asked to follow on.
Ashwell Prince was the only batsman to defy the bowling for any length of time, compiling a doggedly resourceful 101 in his first test against England. His eighth Test hundred took six minutes short of five hours and he hit 13 boundaries and a six.
“We had to be patient on that type of pitch,” Panesar told a news conference. “We had to make it quite hard for them.”
Panesar praised Prince's obdurate innings. “There was a bit of rough there but he managed to counteract that very well,” he said.
Prince said his century in his first innings at Lord's had been a very proud moment.
“Having said that it would have mattered a lot more if it (the day) had been more meaningful for the team,” he said. “Unfortunately we didn't put in good performances today.”
South Africa, resuming the day on seven for no wicket, lost three of their top four batsman in the opening session to the England pace attack, although the ball did little in the air or off the pitch.
Captain Graeme Smith was caught for eight from the 12th delivery of the day at gully off James Anderson, Hashim Amla (6) edged Stuart Broad to wicketkeeper Tim Ambrose and the prolific Jacques Kallis (7) was caught at first slip by Andrew Strauss off Ryan Sidebottom.
Panesar got into the act with his first delivery after lunch.
Opener Neil McKenzie, who had stood firm while his colleagues faltered, was bowled leg-stump for 40 with a ball which turned sharply out of the rough created by the bowlers' footmarks.
Prince and AB de Villiers partially restored their side's fortunes with a fourth-wicket partnership of 78 which was ended by Panesar when Anderson leaped high at mid-on to catch the latter for 42.
Morne Morkel could make little of Panesar and was bowled for four through a wide gap between bat and pad and Paul Harris succumbed for six to another fine catch by Anderson, this time diving forward.
Throughout the chaos at the other end, left-hander Prince persevered with unremitting concentration on a pitch still full of runs. He played Panesar confidently, reverse-sweeping a four and hitting the Englishman over the mid-wicket boundary two balls later. – Reuters __


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